Michael F. McDade v. Robert E. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 142 · 1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1998
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 8701 (Federal Employees Life Insurance Improvement Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8702 · 5 U.S.C. § 8715 · 5 U.S.C. § 8716
Relies on United States v. Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York · Spivak v. United States · Helvering v. Schine Chain Theatres, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nsurance coverage is automatic under the Act unless the employee affirmatively waives it”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In light of the clear and unmistakable language of the waiver form [decedent] marked and signed, neither this letter nor her failure to object to the payroll deductions are sufficient to overcome the inference that the execution of the waiver was a knowing and voluntary act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. Goodwin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.